Re: Bought 2 motherboards, both do exactly the same (nothing)

Posted on 2020-02-20, 12:12

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I have consistent problem with ram, and a lot of boards are (or have become) very fussy about how the sticks are seated. With some boards, if i don't symetrically click in the sticks on both sides at the same time, it won't boot I tried with no ram at all as well, it should at least give me either …

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Re: Bought 2 motherboards, both do exactly the same (nothing)

Posted on 2020-02-20, 12:11

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Doornkaat wrote on 2020-02-20, 11:46: Have you asked your other account, FrankDM yet like you did in that other thread? Valuation of old hardware Maybe he can give you an answer.😉 Yawn 😉 We can make it a meme with you posting a reply with every post I make 😀

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Bought 2 motherboards, both do exactly the same (nothing)

Posted on 2020-02-20, 10:38

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So I bought an Abit BX6 and an Abit LX6. After arriving home and putting them on my test benches, both do exactly the same, nothing at all. I tried with a CPU, without, with RAM and without, gpu, all loaded, nothing etc... nothing on the screen, no beeps, no nothing. I am using a standard power …

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Win98SE Dos gaming and sound

Posted on 2020-02-17, 21:52

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Hello For my Win98SE build I am currently using a SBLive soundcard with Dos drivers for the SB16 emulation driver. This works very well but I recently acquired a Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/creative-sound-blaster-audigy-4-pro-review/ My system is made for two things, dos …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-02-16, 23:46

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I tried HWInfo32 on a Win98SE system and the first thing it did was complain that I am using a 95/98 OS instead of NT, 2000,.. and that results might be "off". Is this normal?

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-13, 21:39

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Errius wrote on 2020-02-13, 05:18: The Amiga uses these drives, right? Can you just drop Amiga drives into PCs and have them work? (And vice-versa) You learn something new every day..

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-13, 17:57

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I do not know the realistic market value of this Wang so I personally cannot help. But I would guess around the 500? range if you find the right buyer. Dont take this as fact. It might be more or less depending on a whole lot of factors. Hope this helps. It is also worth 1000$ if you find the right …

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Re: Star trek a final unity

Posted on 2020-02-13, 11:43

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This works: https://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10414 Ignore all the dosbox stuff and just do the merging of the CD and gamedir path. I can boot up the game and play but I have no sound. Using a SBLive which should have SB16 sound blaster support in dos. As soon as I set the audio to " …

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Best imaging software for old operating systems

Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:03

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I would like to make some disk images after I do the OS, drivers, programs etc installs. That way if something goes wrong, I should be able to just restore the image and don't have to start all over. Anyone know what's the best software to do this with? I read conflicting reports and seems a lot of …

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-12, 12:36

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JidaiGeki wrote on 2020-02-12, 09:01: For more information on that era Wang machines, I'd head over to Vintage Computer Federation (http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php). Thank you for the link!

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-12, 07:19

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Hey all Thanks for the replies, I want to stress, I am NOT selling, not here, elsewhere, private messages... my problem is also a bit, this isn't about a 3DFX card or a Apple 2 or something that is easy to find online, I did already search but didn't find what I have and it is also the first time I …

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Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-11, 17:36

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Is there a place where you can just post some images and ask for a rough valuation of the content? I tried to ask this gently in the Vintage hardware FB group but no one seems to reply. Maybe there is some dedicated place for this? Not a place to actually sell anything, just get a rough idea on …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-02-10, 20:04

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This does not seem to detect PCI cards ? I tried with a few and not sure where to even look and didn't see them in the sections. Of course it does detect them. Are you using HWiNFO32? If yes, look in the main window (with tree on left side) under the Bus node. Hmm no, I am using the DOS version as …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-02-10, 19:51

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This does not seem to detect PCI cards ? I tried with a few and not sure where to even look and didn't see them in the sections.

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-09, 23:33

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Does your PC10 have a hard drive? If it doesn't, and you don't intend to install one, option 3 is probably the best. 360 KB doesn't leave you with much elbow room. The issue of transferring files between computers via cables came up in this topic: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=64025 It …

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-09, 23:03

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No, as others have said, USB 5.25" floppy drives were never made. (I think there are specialist devices for archiving of old disks, but they are very expensive.) Disk drive density is also an issue. I see the PC10 has 360 KB (double density) drives. Most 5.25" drives on sale on places like eBay are …

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-09, 22:19

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Right, so it has two 5.25" floppy drives and you want to add an external 3.5" drive. Does it have a hard disk? If you have another DOS machine with a 3.5" drive you can connect them via parallel cable and transfer files that way. Well I wanted to add the external drive to a modern pc that does have …

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-09, 21:47

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Thanks for all the information. The whole reason why I'd want one of these is to get data on a machine that does have 2 floppy drives but nothing else... I'm stumped on how to get anything I download from the web to the machine which is a Commodore PC10 running Dos 3.20.

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RAM valuation

Posted on 2020-02-08, 23:01

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This is not a sale post, I am not looking to sell these here, only get a rough idea of value and how to best proceed.. I have some RAM modules that I wouldn't mind parting with but have no idea how much to ask.. also should I sell it wholesale or split them up? There are some DDR1 & 2, SDRAM, EDO …

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Re: Windows 3.11 and the mouse

Posted on 2020-02-07, 22:34

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derSammler wrote on 2020-02-07, 18:58: ctmouse will work, since the system will see a ps/2 mouse, not an USB one (unless you disable Legacy USB support in BIOS, which you probably not going to do 😉). It worked just fine, didn't know it was that easy to use a USB mouse in DOS...

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